SANATORIUM CONTROL.

Northern Advocate, 16 July 1921, Page 6

SANATORIUM CONTROL.

• .'HAXGE A r i>PUKEOR A. TT;ANsFlvli TO HEALTH DEPARTMENT. WELLINGTON, This Day. Pukeora ?.ruatoriuiu at WaipuU'■.; nJ> to be •trcn-f'orrod a fror.i

11Ii.'fVnee Department to the Health . lirment. T'H< institution wa lr.i H bv the Dei' 1 :ir-e DcpM'tnient for i' ".leatinent of soldiers suf•fV.'lhp\ from fube.milnr "disease. The .11 c /.Ith # Department, for some time has hr .1 an _ arangcni'iit -with the Defence .l)i for the treatment of civilian eases in.the institution, and pa--1: from North Island districts have Iv-j gathered thor.'\'' The number of ci.'l.r.u patients at Pukeora "Will be "n-: .'eased presently, owing to the closof the I'd Waikato sanatorium at abridge. The change of 'Control v.".i not affect status of the remain--3i ," soldier patient-:, who will continue receive the same treatment as in the pi; ~.'u under the .-.arne doctors'- and the a a o officials. . The change is intended to prevent overlapping, and i? in accord with the general policy of the Government that all hospitals shall be br.-ught within the sphere of the Health .Department/' Colonel D. S. Wylie, wdio was hi •cbmraand.of the Nov Zealand hospital at-Broekenhurst, and i;-; now director of hospitals under the Health Department, will have special e! ,:ge of the institution. The decision to transfer the military h'v'pitals to the Health Department. W'.s the outcome of a conference bef.v;eei- the Ministers and representa Jives of the two departments to-day. OaS.ti.not confirmed, the decision subse■quoalh% Pukeora will .be the first infit '.tution transferred, and the hospitals :a Botorua-and -Hanmer -will. follow. The. Defence .Department will be responsible -for the cost, incurred iby the civil nd-ministration an the treatment >►•1 soldier .patients, and will remain in •. uc'i with these men. Any complaint Ilia!: the returned soldiers may have t> na.'ce, for example, will be made to the Defence Department, which will 'repr<»r.'at them in dealings with the' Health 'Department. A', general statement covering the.arrangement- will be made shortly by the director-general of medit :•,! services, .General 'Sir . Donald Mc'.it.vin. " . ... ■